Easter Activities 1

It's officially the Easter break.

By rights, we should all be piling into cars today for excruciatingly long family drives to the coast, or to visit long-forgotten relatives, or to wander aimlessly round some country-estate with a backpack full of sandwiches. As it is, of course, none of that will be happening this year, and all of a sudden those hours packed into the back of a Ford Fiesta with The Beautiful South blaring over the speakers sounds like heaven.

For the last two weeks, I've been (somewhat successfully) adding a lesson a day to this blog, but since it's technically a holiday, I'm going to change approach for the next two and search for fun things to do that will, hopefully, keep any bored students out there entertained until we can get back to the real fun of organised education. As well as that, I'll be recommending books, TV shows and films that I feel are worth a look.

Book Recommendation:

July Book of the Month (& Competition)! | Malorie Blackman ...Noughts and Crosses, Malorie Blackman

You may have been watching the BBC's recent adaptation of Malorie Blackman's Romeo & Juliet-esque tale of social inequality, but the original novel is very different from the TV show. The characters are much younger, and their relationship develops much more naturally, but the same themes of institutional racism and injustice surround their forbidden love.

Film Recommendation:

Howl's Moving Castle

 Howl's Moving Castle (Anime) - TV TropesHayao Miyazaki's incredible adaptation of Diana Wynne Jones' novel is now available on Netflix (along with the rest of the Studio Ghibli collection) and is well worth a watch for anyone interested in fantasy/magic as Miyazaki works his own magic to create one of his finest films.









Things To Do:


  • The National Theatre are streaming a play every week on Youtube to watch for free. This week, it's One Man, Two Guv'nors, starring James Corden, with plenty more scheduled for the future. https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/nt-at-home




If anyone has any other suggestions, please send them my way! I'll try to add some new ideas every day.




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